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2005-06 Topps Chrome Basketball is back with the same look as regular Topps basketball (and that's a good thing). Alot of the shots on the cards are of new photography than the earlier released Topps. Most of the cards have nice action shots of all players, but there are some with posed pictures as well. All of the information on the front of the cards is located on the bottom portion of the card. The rest of the card is clean and almost draws you into the game from which the pictures were taken. The back of the cards has a complete statistical listing of the players' complete history in the NBA.

There is a mixture in the rookie cards of posed shots and action shots. The back of the rookie cards have the players' stats from their previous Basketball experiences, while the celebrity cards have a small write-up of the celebritys' achievements. We pulled (34) rookies from our 24 packs of cards in this box.

The refractors are very plentiful in this box. They included;

• Chauncey Billups /999
• Ben Gordon /999
• Nenad Krystic /999
• Dwight Howard /399
• Jamaal Magloire /99
• Luke Ridnour /399
• Chris Webber /90

The game-used was of Devin Harris of the Mavs and is a single colored black swatch numbered to /400. Very nice solid design on the game-used as well as the rest of the set.